Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-08-11
JeoGe WAxeM ABROAD.

JeoGe WAxeM ABROAD.
10 and Mandy Visit Venice. which They
Pronounce Very WET Town"
Especial Correspondence
VENICE, July 10.
Politically speaking, Italy is right
pushin sort Of . country, and the king and
queen do . good deal personally to cover up
the tyrant heel of oppression, but It is thar
all the same, and it sticks out in good many
places One Of these consists in the fact that
every Italian town ID fenced in by customhouse
officers, and everything that goes in to sell
has to pay duty. l have saw the officers
| board q street car and examine bundles tho
passengers had in their arms. and every
farmer with donkey load Of garden truck
comm to market has to pay at the gate BE-
| fore he can git away. Strangers coming into
| town from railroad depots air subject to hav-
| ing their baggage examined ef they don't 60
| up in the regular hotel omnibusses Even in
the buses we have been stopped, but never
knowed what they said to me, and I shook
my head and went on My flask has bean
empty for a month, and amt got any to-
| hacker except few Italian segars that air
strong enough to hurl dedants in the tyrant's
teeth, so don't bother myself much about
custom duties. think Of King Humbert
| would shut up his custom Offices and git at
| the same results by levying hucksters' and
pedlars' licenses it would look better and be
more in harmony with the sperrit Of the
| times.
But I am forgetting myself. We air in
Venice now, and from the winder near which
| l write you these few lines l can see
the Grand canal, and watch the gondoliers in
their black boats moving about on the waters
| like sea serpent with its head and tail up
and hump OH its back. When we landed
here, and got in gondola instid Of a car to
| 60 the hotel, Mandy liked to have had a fit,
and said If she had knowed the spring freshets
were up that way she would have staid in
| Florence. Mandy was awair that Venice
had some canals for streets, but she thought
| they were mostly round the edges Of the
| town, and il l hadn't read up on the train
coming in would have thought the same
way. told her it was all right, but she
knew better, and vowed and declared that
even if the hotel people could be tempted by
money to take us in out Of the wet, that she
wouldn't think of sleepin' in the house till it
was completely dried out, because her room
| atiz wouldn't stand any foolin' with damp
ness. and she didn't come to Europe to nuss
roomatiz, but to see the sights and have a
| good time. ! coaxed her into going to see
the hotel anyhow, and when we got there it
stood back about 100 feet from the canal, and
looked SO dry that she got out Of the gondolar
swell, she says, "this looks better, and il
the water amt raisin' I'll stay here over
night, but III go in the morning If there's the
| least bit Of sign Of rain"
49,
! After we got supper we took a walk, going
over the bridges every five minutes, and
| follerin' narrow little streets and looking up
and down canals in every direction till we
| didn't know whether we was afloat or on
| shore.
Finally Mandy says to me:
"Bash, there's solnethin' lackin' about this
town that's been in every other Italian town.
| Now, what is It'll"
"'Taint the bad smells. is it," I asst.
"No, faint them; they air all present"
"'Taiut beggars, and fleas, and dirt, and
| cathedrals, and old masters and the wrecks of
| time. is itP'
"No; they're all here, as far as I've saw.
It's somethin' else, and know it as well as
know my own name, but can't call it."
begun to look around and scratch my
head, for had been missing something my
| self
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